Quotes About Career

My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.

For too long, Missouri has been run by career politicians, owned by corrupt consultants, high-paid lobbyists and special interests.

It wasn't until I owned my body and really learned to love it - all of it - that my career just went to a level that I couldn't have expected.

I've always wanted to model and act. My first break came to me when I was at a parlour to get a haircut. The salon owner asked me if I would model for them.

Depending on where you're at or the ownership you're working for, some of the college jobs may be better than some in the NFL.

I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.

A Bar Mitzvah is the time in his life when a Jewish boy realizes he has a better chance of owning a team than playing for one.

The future of work is changing. It's becoming a world where you are owning a lot about how you make your living.

My older brother, who was in the Army, now owns his own building company. My half-sister was a nurse and is now a psychotherapist.

I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read English, and I'm really interested in politics.

I wish I'd gone to university. I had the opportunity to go to Oxford but by then I'd already started as a comedian.

I feel things are changing now. Actresses are working at same pace even after getting married or having kids.

I was the leading star in 1945. I slowed down my pace of acting assignments after I came into direction.

'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.

I probably did pack a lifetime's work into the 1980s.

A dancer's career is short - you just keep going until your legs pack up.

When I look at offers, I think about the entire package and how it is going to work in my favour or how it's going to project me.

'Fruitvale' set the bar for what I wanted to do with my career, which was to make films that had consciousness and messaging in an entertaining package. Once I hit that mark, I never wanted to go back.

I couldn't go on an '80s package show or anything like that. I have a lot more to give. If you go down that road completely I think you'll stay with a certain type of audience. Again I'm not knocking it. People go for the fun of the hits, it's what they've grown up with.

After 'Gremlins' came out, I should have packed up everything, moved to Los Angeles from New York, and dedicated myself to being a full time film actor. I had the world at my feet.

For an actor, nothing can be more blissful than a packed date diary!

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

Confining a resume to a single page is good advice for anyone.

Sometimes I take a movie that I know is not great; it's not great on the page, but I need to work. Sometimes I need to make the money. I need dough. I want to work, and so I'll take something that is compromised in some arena. But it's like, actors gotta act.